On 7 Apr 2002 13:43:29 -0400, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: [...] > >Assignments in expressions will never happen. > I guess you mean they won't be spelled concisely ;-) >>> a='eigh' >>> a 'eigh' >>> locals().__setitem__('a','bee') and 0 or a 'bee' Regards, Bengt Richter